- Title
- Why did squatters in colonial Victoria use Indigenous placenames for their sheep stations?
- Creator
- Cahir, David (Fred)
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/100893
- Identifier
- vital:10615
- Identifier
- http://library.federation.edu.au/record=b2615844
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781925021622 (pbk); 9781925021639 (ebk)
- Abstract
- The archival records of many squatters in 19th century Victoria (formerly known as the Port Phillip District) often contain brief references to the processes involved in and decisions that led to the naming of their pastoral leases. This documentation is hardly surprising given that a squatter wishing to obtain a pastoral license would have to register a legal document with the colonial government, stating among other things the name of the run. What is perplexing is why a large number of pastoralists chose an Indigenous name - given that squatters were not under any instructions to bestow 'native names' whenever possible - unlike the surveyors who came after them.
- Publisher
- ANU Press
- Relation
- Indigenous and minority placenames : Australian and international perspectives (Aboriginal history series) Chapter 12 p. 225-238
- Rights
- Copyright © ANU Press
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- Indigenous placenames; Minority placemames; Toponymy
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